Keeping Older Adults Independent

 How A Robot Helped Me  Master Home Care for Seniors It was 2011 and I had been working on the very early versions of the robot known as RUDY, building and testing late into the night on a regular basis.  I realized that I needed to learn more, (like Johnny 5 in Short Circuit, I needed more input) I had to get out of the hallways of this building and get RUDY into the home of older adults to learn more.  What I would learn over the next 10 years would surprise me and open my eyes to a process that has remain largely unchanged since I began this journey.   Unabridged Access to How Home Care for Seniors I remember calling businesses that cared for older adults, I started with the fact that I had a robot to help seniors at home and I had them hooked.  They always wanted to learn more and I never had problems getting a follow up call.   Convincing them to allow me into the home and to work around seniors was the real challenge.  Home care for seniors ...

Companion Care is the Most Critical Stage of Your Aging Cycle Companion care is the most important and absolutely the most critical stage of care to maintaining your independence.  Companion care is early-stage care that is non-medical and its definition of what it does can be found in its name, it provides companionship.  In the United States, older adults are much more likely to live alone than in other countries.  That percentage increases with age.  The reason this stage of care is so important are because of two factors: it is the stage where you can make the biggest impact on an older adult's independence and the stage where you can make the biggest impact in saving the older adult money for care related expenses. How Companion Care Can Extend Independence An older adult living alone can have very infrequent interaction with others.  Family can live far away and studies have shown that living alone can cause depression .  This is dangerous for an ...

How Scammers Target Seniors Advice on how to avoid being scammed       I have older parents that live alone and they often call me to tell me about how someone called them to get their credit card number or asked them for their social security number and they refused.  Many older adults today are wary of scammers targeting them, they are a large demographic that controls a lot of money as a group and people with bad intentions know this and see this as an opportunity.  They bet on the numbers game, meaning that they will call 100 people and if they get one, then they have accomplished their mission.  Communicating what we hear or personal experiences to others are absolutely key to preventing the next senior from being scammed, we need to keep our older parents safe.  If you are reading this and have a family member that has been a victim or intended victim, please share your story in the comments below.   I am a huge advocate for keeping se...

 My Story:  Why I am in Senior Home Care My journey to make home care proactive started with three seeds I found myself in Silicon Valley backstage at the Health 2.0 conference, ready to take the main stage in front of a crowd of hundreds. I peered between an opening of two curtains and had a glimpse of the stage and the crowd, but something else caught my eye.  It was not the camera man that would be directly in my face, I had been on other stages and gotten used to that by now.  I looked up for some reason and shining directly on the spot where I was to talk was a bright lime green light, shining and flickering like a star.  Was this what they meant by lime light?   I started thinking about all the things that led me here and right before they called my name to get on stage, I thought about the reason I started in senior home care, my grandmother and a fond memory I had of her, it relaxed me. Then I heard, “CEO, Anthony Nunez.”     My journe...